How does it benefit the nation... if for a large percentage of our fuel requirements for heating our homes we have to rely on foreign nations, which could easily hold us to ransom over oil/gas supply. At best misguided. At worst vicisous and vindictive.
RE: Politics is different No it isn't. The whirlwind sown by Thatcher is only just developing beyond a breeze.</p> The worst is yet to come and won't be felt for a generation yet.</p> Example - news item yesterday, gas production critically low, more coal imports needed urgently.</p>
RE: Ah but. Its not just that, its the face she just left people to suffer with little or no help in terms of what they were to do for a living after the mines closed. Heartless bitch.